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Monday, Aug. 5, 2024
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Companies with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technologies may submit their platforms, components, capabilities, or software for the potential to be included on the DIU Blue UAS List or the DIU Blue UAS Framework List.
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Entrepreneurs and professionals may join us at the Defense Innovation OnRamp Hub: Ohio in person or virtually to learn about emerging DoD priorities, join a discussion on product-market fit, and develop a playbook for creating and sustaining market advantage and differentiation.
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The 12-month Immersive Commercial Acquisition Program (ICAP) fellowship will help acquisition professionals harness commercial technology innovation. Participants will train and learn about Other Transactions (OTs), which can be beneficial for acquiring technologies from nontraditional defense contractors.
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Business leaders, founders, and entrepreneurs can learn how to navigate DoD Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding requirements to maximize the potential of their projects at the Founder Series: SBIR/STTR luncheon at the Defense Innovation OnRamp Hub: Arizona. Sonia Vohnout, a subject matter expert on Funding and Commercialization Strategies at the University of Arizona Center for Innovation will be speaking.
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NSIN alumni Joseph Ashley and Cole Malenich are providing lifesaving training aids to warfighters and first responders, helping them improve tourniquet application and wound packing through their startup, Rapid Deployment Medical Training. The two based their solution on a prototype they created while working with Fort Stewart’s Marne Innovation Center through the X-Force Fellowship.
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The inaugural NSIN-supported AI4Defense program – which sees Virginia high schoolers spend one month developing artificial intelligence (AI) skills while working on DoD challenges – presented their prototype solutions in front of judges from NSIN, Booz Allen Hamilton, and OpenText Public Sector Solutions, Inc. at George Mason University. The students' solutions automated or streamlined processes for requirements writing, strategic analysis, personnel evaluations, and compliance to improve efficiency.
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Entrepreneurs and professionals interested in working with the DoD can learn the basics with the NSIN Transition Cell during their webinar series, taking place every third Thursday of the month. Discussion topics range from budget cycles, types of government customers, and types of appropriations. There will be a Q&A period at the end of each session.
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Industry professionals, manufacturers, suppliers, and stakeholders in the advanced air mobility (AAM) sector have the opportunity to learn about the latest advancements in AAM technology and its transformative potential for travel and goods transport, including for military applications. Discussions will include experts, manufacturers, and suppliers from across the AAM industry.
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See the 2024 NSIN Vector cohort present innovative technologies for advanced sensing, data sharing, command and control, resilient position navigation and timing, and contested communications before a panel of experts as they compete for $50,000. The showcase event will highlight 20 companies and include panel discussions with Vector alumni and venture capitalists.
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NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) has launched its 2024 challenges to bring together the best innovators across the NATO alliance. The five challenge areas are energy and power, data and information security, sensing and surveillance, human health and performance, and critical infrastructure and logistics. Applications close Aug. 9.
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DEFENSE INNOVATION EVENTS |
Startups and individuals can find paths to work with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) during a day-long event in Omaha, Nebraska. DARPA office directors, program managers, and staff will be on site to share how innovators can engage with program managers, respond to DARPA requests for proposals, and work with DARPA.
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NSIN is a program office in the U.S. Department of Defense, nested within the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). We are set up to collaborate with a wide variety of innovators to include universities, researchers, students, entrepreneurs and start-ups. We create opportunities for collaboration across communities and connect those that might not traditionally work in national security. Together, we help drive national security innovation and develop technologies that directly support the individuals responsible for protecting our country. |
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